On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Merlin is a British fantasy-adventure hit television show which began broadcasting on BBC One on 20 September 2008. The show is based on the Wizard Merlin and his relationship with Prince Arthur. The story-line however differs from traditional versions of the legend in many ways. Fans of the show however now have a Game based on the series that will be available to play on Facebook. Created by Bossa Studios creators of the Facebook game Monstermind . The game follows the TV series with animation that is in 3D, adding a whole new dimension to the game. It alos has the blessings of Julian Murphy and Johnny Capps, executive producers at Shine TV and creators of the globally-televised smash hit. Players get plunged deeper into the universe of Camelot with each step of the game. Signup now to be able to play in closed beta in July - Merlin the Game . An original post by Sociolatte